OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Soft Robotics is 18. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A Soft Amphibious Turtle Robot with Flexibility and Omnidirectional Motion Ability Actuated by Multiple Bionic Muscles	145
Twisting and Braiding Fluid-Driven Soft Artificial Muscle Fibers for Robotic Applications	116
YoMo: Yoshimura Continuum Manipulator for MR Environment	102
Shape Reconstruction of Extensible Continuum Manipulator Based on Soft Sensors	101
Magnetic Soft Catheter Robot System for Minimally Invasive Treatments of Articular Cartilage Defects	98
Model-Based 3D Shape Reconstruction of Soft Robots via Distributed Strain Sensing	96
Design and Control of Lightweight Bionic Arm Driven by Soft Twisted and Coiled Artificial Muscles	91
Steering Muscle-Based Bio-Syncretic Robot Through Bionic Optimized Biped Mechanical Design	69
Soft Robotic Perspective and Concept for Planetary Small Body Exploration	66
Bioinspired, Shape-Morphing Scale Battery for Untethered Soft Robots	66
An Untethered Soft Robot Based on Liquid Crystal Elastomers	65
Frictional Anisotropic Locomotion and Adaptive Neural Control for a Soft Crawling Robot	65
ZodiAq: An Isotropic Flagella-Inspired Soft Underwater Drone for Safe Marine Exploration	64
Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Force Sensor Incorporated into Soft Robotic Gripper for Improved Grasping Stability	64
Harnessing Liquid Crystal Elastomers for Locomotion and Mechanical Intelligence in a Soft Robot	64
Optimal Control of Dielectric Elastomer Actuated Multibody Dynamical Systems	63
Skeletonizing the Dynamics of Soft Continuum Body from Video	62
Mechanics and Morphological Compensation Strategy for Trimmed Soft Whisker Sensor	61
Stiffness Tunable Magnetic Actuators Based on Shape Memory Polymer/NdFeB Composite for Segmental Controllable Motion	57
Biomimetic Octopus Suction Cup with Attachment Force Self-Sensing Capability for Cardiac Adhesion	56
Chemically Driven Oscillating Soft Pneumatic Actuation	54
Human-Inspired Tactile Perception System for Real-Time and Multimodal Detection of Tactile Stimuli	54
Nanotextured Soft Electrothermo-Pneumatic Actuator for Constructing Lightweight, Integrated, and Untethered Soft Robotics	53
Unfolding Textile-Based Pneumatic Actuators for Wearable Applications	53
Stiffness Preprogrammable Soft Bending Pneumatic Actuators for High-Efficient, Conformal Operation	52

Advancing Soft Robot Proprioception Through 6D Strain Sensors Embedding	52
A Passively Conforming Soft Robotic Gripper with Three-Dimensional Negative Bending Stiffness Fingers	51
Improvement of Precision Grasping Performance by Interaction Between Soft Finger Pulp and Hard Nail	51
A Variable Stiffness Soft Gripper Based on Rotational Layer Jamming	49
Hygromachines: Humidity-Powered Wheels, Seesaws, and Vehicles	49
Magnetic Liquid Metal Droplet Robot with Multifunction and High Output Force in Milli-Newton	47
Thermo-Pneumatic Artificial Muscle: Air-Based Thermo-Pneumatic Artificial Muscles for Pumpless Pneumatic Actuation	46
Performance Enhancement of Soft Nanotextured Thermopneumatic Actuator by Incorporating Silver Nanowires into Elastomer Body	43
A Variable Stiffness Bioinspired Swallowing Gripper Based on Particle Jamming	43
Selaginella lepidophylla-Inspired Multi-Stimulus Cooperative Control MXene-Based Flexible Actuator	43
A Dual-Modal Hybrid Gripper with Wide Tunable Contact Stiffness Range and High Compliance for Adaptive and Wide-Range Grasping Objects with Diverse Fragilities	42
A Biomimetic Adhesive Disc for Robotic Adhesion Sliding Inspired by the Net-Winged Midge Larva	41
Electro-Thermopneumatically Actuated, Adhesion-Force Controllable Octopus-Like Suction Cup Actuator	40
SoftSnap: Rapid Prototyping of Untethered Soft Robots Using Snap-Together Modules	39
A Versatile 3D-Printable Soft Pneumatic Actuator Design for Multi-Functional Applications in Soft Robotics	38
Ultralow Voltage High-Performance Nanocellulose-Based Electro-Ionic Actuators for Soft Robots	38
Far-Field Magnetic Sensing on Soft Origami Actuator for Spatial Multidimensional Movement and Force Perception	37
3D-Printed Soft Sensors for Adaptive Sensing with Online and Offline Tunable Stiffness	37
Enabling Tunable Stiffness, Adhesive Grasping, and Interaction-Driven Reconfiguration: A Shape-Memory-Polymer-Enhanced Fin-Ray Gripper	36
Biological Robots: Perspectives on an Emerging Interdisciplinary Field	34
Toward Onboard Proportional Control of Multi-Chamber Soft Pneumatic Robots: A Magnetorheological Elastomer Valve Array	33
Closing the Control Loop with Time-Variant Embedded Soft Sensors and Recurrent Neural Networks	33
Tunable Soft Lens of Large Focal Length Change	32
A Versatile Topology-Optimized Compliant Actuator for Soft Robotic Gripper and Walking Robot	32
Inflatable Particle-Jammed Robotic Gripper Based on Integration of Positive Pressure and Partial Filling	31
A Holistic Indirect Contact Identification Method for Soft Robot Proprioception	31
Acknowledgment of Reviewers 2021	30
A Cut-and-Fold Self-Sustained Compliant Oscillator for Autonomous Actuation of Origami-Inspired Robots	30
Reconfigurable, Transformable Soft Pneumatic Actuator with Tunable Three-Dimensional Deformations for Dexterous Soft Robotics Applications	29
Design and Motion Analysis of a Soft Modular Robot for Diverse Environments	29
Soft Robot Proprioception Using Unified Soft Body Encoding and Recurrent Neural Network	28
Adaptive and Robust Switchable Adhesion System: Bio-Inspired Synergistic Integration from Octopuses and Geckos	28
Fin-Bayes: A Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization Framework for Soft Robotic Fingers	27
Print-and-Spray Electromechanical Metamaterials	26
Trajectory Planning on Rolling Locomotion of Spherical Movable Tensegrity Robots with Multi-Gait Patterns	26
Tensegrity Robotics	26
Introducing the New Deputy-Editor-in-Chief	25
Bioinspired Vacuum Generation via Pressure-to-Vacuum Conversion for Manipulating all Phases of Matter	25
Fluid-Driven Traveling Waves in Soft Robots	25
Anguilliform Swimming Performance of an Eel-Inspired Soft Robot	25
A Deep Learning Framework for Soft Robots with Synthetic Data	25
FluidicOscillation-BasedPneumaticActuationfor SoftLocomotionandGrasping	24
Bioinspired Multimodal Multipose Hybrid Fingers for Wide-Range Force, Compliant, and Stable Grasping	24
A Fast Online Elastic-Spine-Based Stiffness Adjusting Mechanism for Fishlike Swimming	24
Honeycomb Jamming: An Enabling Technology of Variable Stiffness Reconfiguration	24
Topology Optimization and Prototype of a Multimaterial-Like Compliant Finger by Varying the Infill Density in 3D Printing	24
An Ambidextrous STarfish-Inspired Exploration and Reconnaissance Robot (The ASTER-bot)	24
Soft Robotics for Space Applications: Cryogenic Performance of Modular Metallic Cable Structures	23
Fast Thermal Actuators for Soft Robotics	23
Acknowledgment of Reviewers 2023	23

Nonlinear Dynamics Research of Ground Undulatory Fin Robot with Flexible Deformation and Frictional Contact	23
A Human-Inspired Soft Finger with Dual-Mode Morphing Enabled by Variable Stiffness Mechanism	23
Intentional Blocking Based Photoelectric Soft Pressure Sensor with High Sensitivity and Stability	22
Piezo-Wormbots for Continuous Crawling	22
The Walking Control of a Crab Biorobot in Amphibious Environment	22
A Hybrid Anchoring Technology Composed of Reinforced Flexible Shells for a Knee Unloading Exosuit	21
Fluidic Multichambered Actuator and Multiaxis Intrinsic Force Sensing	21
Acknowledgment of Reviewers 2024	21
Armor-Based Stable Force Pneumatic Artificial Muscles for Steady Actuation Properties	20
Action Augmentation of Tactile Perception for Soft-Body Palpation	20
Miniaturized Circuitry for Capacitive Self-Sensing and Closed-Loop Control of Soft Electrostatic Transducers	20
Fin-A-Rays: Expanding Soft Gripper Compliance via Discrete Arrays of Flexible Structures	20
Spikebot: A Multigait Tensegrity Robot with Linearly Extending Struts	20
Single-Actuator Soft Robot for In-Pipe Crawling	20
Design of a Wearable Real-Time Hand Motion Tracking System Using an Array of Soft Polymer Acoustic Waveguides	20
MorphGI: A Self-Propelling Soft Robotic Endoscope Through Morphing Shape	19
Bioinspired Soft Electrostatic Accordion-Fold Actuators	19
Harnessing the Multistability of Kresling Origami for Reconfigurable Articulation in Soft Robotic Arms	19
Tuning the Morphology of Suction Discs to Enable Directional Adhesion for Locomotion in Wet Environments	19
Biomimetic Closed-Loop Control of a Novel Soft Gastric Simulator Toward Emulating Antral Contraction Waves	18
An Inchworm-Inspired Fast-Moving Micro Flexible Robot for Autonomous Terrain-Adaptive Exploration	18
Optimal Design of Electrode Topology of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators Based on the Parameterized Level Set Method	18
Design and Feasibility Tests of a Lightweight Soft Gripper for Compliant and Flexible Envelope Grasping	18
Scaling Up Soft Robotics: A Meter-Scale, Modular, and Reconfigurable Soft Robotic System	18